In 1983 the School of Thinking pioneered the ‘thinking caps method of teaching thinking skills’. This method is now used widely around the world. SOT created the six thinking caps strategy to help thinkers to escape from their current thinking patterns.

After leaving SOT in 1985, Edward de Bono published a later version of Six Thinking Hats in which he has changed the idea from the original ‘caps‘ to ‘hats‘ and he also switched the ‘blue‘ and ‘green‘ ones around. His book is a fine summary of the ‘Thinking Caps’ idea but, disappointingly, he failed to attribute that he got the 0riginal idea when he was in the School of Thinking in 1983. Edward has promised to rectify that oversight in future editions.

In the Preface of a recent edition of Six Thinking Hats Edward acknowledges that, “The Six Thinking Hats method may well be the most important change in human thinking for the past 2300 years”.

••• For those who are interested, click through here to see the original transcript of the ‘School of Thinking Caps‘ concept design (September 1983):

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